To give a better overview especially about his numerous literary works, a separate literary biography follows afterwards. The succeeding part of this paper is to introduce you to the life of Charles Dickens by providing a short biography. With the help of those stories similarities and differences will be analysed and typical elements of a ghost story pointed out. In a last step we are eventually going to have a closer look at two of his works - The Signalman and A Madman’s Manuscript. Also, we will focus on the ghost story itself and explain, what reasons made Dickens write such stories and how he actually developed his skills. In this paper we first of all have a flashback on Dickens’ life and works. Dickens’ earliest stories were inset tales in the Pickwick Papers first published in 1837. A Christmas Carol is probably one of his best known ghost stories, but it is, however, not his first. Since having read about Old Marley’s apparitions in A Christmas Carol we have been fascinated by Dickens’ way of creating suspense and a ghost-like atmosphere. I do no know whether a man or a woman But who is that one on the other side of you? Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the whit road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded.
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